{"id":4189,"date":"2021-05-23T22:50:09","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T17:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/?p=4189"},"modified":"2022-06-16T15:14:46","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T09:44:46","slug":"rapid-prototyping-by-printing-circuits-using-an-inkjet-printer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/rapid-prototyping-by-printing-circuits-using-an-inkjet-printer\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapid Prototyping by Printing circuits using an Inkjet Printer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Printing circuits using commercial inkject printers is something that is becoming more and more convenient and affordable day by day. In their 2014 paper <a href='https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/2493432.2493486'>Instant inkjet circuits: lab-based inkjet printing to support rapid prototyping of UbiComp devices<\/a> Prof. Kawahara and others showcased several applications from touch sensors to capacitive liquid level sensors. If you are interested in trying this out (I am sorely tempted), then checkout this <a href='https:\/\/www.instructables.com\/Print-Conductive-Circuits-With-An-Inkjet-Printer\/'>Instructable.com: Print Conductive Circuits With an Inkjet Printer<\/a> post that walks you through how to modify your printer.<\/p>\n<p>The Ink to print these circuits is available for purchase online at <a href='https:\/\/store.novacentrix.com\/category-s\/1836.htm'>novacentrix.com<\/a>. You need the following to start printing circuits:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>    A low-cost printer such as EPSON WF 2010<\/li>\n<li>    Printing substrates like PET and glossy paper<\/li>\n<li>    Oven or hot plate for sintering &#038; drying the ink<\/li>\n<li>    Empty refillable cartridges<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A good area for experimentation would be for wearable circuits on clothing and other such places. But there are a ton of other applications especially in the embedded electronics market.<\/p>\n<p>Well this is all for now. Will write more later. <\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href='https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=27254480'>Hackernews: Rapid Prototyping with a $100 Inkjet Printer<\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Suramya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Printing circuits using commercial inkject printers is something that is becoming more and more convenient and affordable day by day. In their 2014 paper Instant inkjet circuits: lab-based inkjet printing to support rapid prototyping of UbiComp devices Prof. Kawahara and others showcased several applications from touch sensors to capacitive liquid level sensors. If you are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21,40,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-hardware","category-emerging-tech","category-techie-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4191,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4189\/revisions\/4191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}